This is a fine lake of transparent water, about eighteen miles in length, with several large bays and islands as denoted in the accompanying sketch, which give it an irregular shape.
It is overlaid by about eighteen inches of black alluvial carbonaceous mould.
Shores of sand then intercept its view to the entrance of the River St. Louis, and up its channel to its first rapids, about eighteen miles, where the red sandstone again appears, as the first series of the Cabotian Mountains.
The person who now entered was a girl of about eighteen, short, and very much deformed.
This creek encloses a space extending along the whole width of the bay of about eighteen or twenty acres.
I hope she may be here again to take me and the remaining goods, live and inanimate, in about eighteen or twenty days.
On going to it, we saw a youth of about eighteen hanging in the air by a strap bound to his wrist, and dangling against the wheel in such a manner that every revolution of it scraped the body from the breast to the ankles.
He had sent a youth of about eighteen to this horrible place to be whipped and afterwards to be worked upon the treadmill.
The diameter of a well-grown plant is about eighteen inches, and its weight twenty-eight ounces.
I sincerely hope it did not do him justice, for it represents him in the shape of an awkward lad of about eighteen, with a bloated booby face with staring eyes, and a ruff round a short apoplectic neck.
The family was rather numerous, consisting of a father, son, and eleven daughters, the eldest of whom might be about eighteen.
Not one native made his appearance before the early part of November when, as if by signal, a party of about eighteen on each shore communicated with us on the same day and were very friendly, although exceedingly suspicious and timid.
They took four of them, and brought them aboard; two of them were middle-aged, the other two were young men about eighteen or twenty years old.
Echo Canyon is a narrow pass, about eighteen miles in length, and commands the entrance to Salt Lake Valley from the east.
They fortified Echo Canyon, a narrow pass, about eighteen miles in length, eastward from the city.
About eighteen miles to the east of Woodville are the "Elysian Fields!
Being in the power of the Moors, they had no option, and having therefore signified their consent, the party consisting of about eighteen Moors, and the two whites, set out for Soudenny.
Both species grow to a height of about eighteen inches, and the latter flowers in May and June, while the former is in bloom during the hottest summer months.
It grows to a height of about eighteen inches, and bears white flowers in June.
They both grow to a height of about eighteen inches, and flower in late summer.
The usual marching is two days’ work to one day’s rest, travelling, on an average, about eighteen to twenty miles a day.
The present Kootookta is about eighteen years of age, lives, like the Emperor of China, a life of the strictest privacy, and is only exhibited to the faithful by the Lamas or priests in charge on very rare occasions.
It is usually a bare dirty room, about eighteen feet by eighteen, a third of which is separated by a bamboo screen or partition, four or five feet high, for more favoured guests who wish to be separated from the common herd.
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